Postcards on Place
This collaborative design project, delivered in partnership with Nesta’s Collective Intelligence Design team, challenged students to explore the future of collective decision-making around energy systems in 2035. Working with Human and Artificial Collective Intelligence for Decision-making (HACID) integrates AI technologies such as knowledge graphs with expert crowdsourcing and web-scraped data to support decision-making in high-stakes areas.
My proposal is a crowdsourcing co-op led project that brings local entities together to explore through imagery, writing and material samples their community environment and input into local decision making around placement of local renewable energy infrastructure. This project protects situated knowledge through community-led action. Citizens generate data on experiences, ideas and identification and classification of local sites.
Project Value:
(1) Protecting Situated Knowledge: Guides an understanding of the local ecologies and geologies helping to identify and frame areas of scarcity and abundance.
(2) Devolution: Adopting participatory approaches through grassroot community led
initiatives by creating the opportunity for individuals to co-create, co-evolve and co-respond to local energy projects. This helps to empower individuals and strengthen social bonds, giving a voice to people who might not otherwise be heard.
(3) Sustainability: Understanding people’s relationship with place and the environment to construct healthy equitable symbiotic communities built on democratic foundations.
Making transformational impact in building new inclusive cultures, that use collective intelligence methods such as crowdsourcing help solve complex problems. That which then promotes and expands, addressing and including the unconventional, giving space for diverse and unique ideas and opinions lowering the barrier to participation so that all entities are present and accounted for.
